“…Magnetic measurements have been successfully adopted in reconstructing the climatic and environmental evolution of marine and continental sediments (Thompson and Oldfield, 1986;Verosub and Roberts, 1995;Dekkers, 1997;Maher and Thompson, 1999;Evans and Heller, 2003;Lu et al, 2013;Nie et al, 2014;Hu et al, 2015;Hošek et al, 2015;Tamuntuan et al, 2015). Magnetic measurements provide a means of characterizing the mineralogy, concentration, and grain size of magnetic minerals contained in sediments in a rapid, economical and non-destructive way (Thompson and Oldfield, 1986).…”